Fusion needed for AI

[milesgehm]

Sam Altman saying stuff

Altman himself has invested hundreds of millions in fusion and in recent interviews has suggested the futuristic technology, widely seen as the holy grail of clean energy, will eventually provide the enormous amounts of power demanded by next-gen AI.

“There’s no way to get there without a breakthrough, we need fusion,” alongside scaling up other renewable energy sources, Altman said in a January interview. Then in March, when podcaster and computer scientist Lex Fridman asked how to solve AI’s “energy puzzle,” Altman again pointed to fusion.

ChatGPT’s boss claims nuclear fusion is the answer to AI’s soaring energy needs. Experts say not so fast | CNN

As companies race to develop next-gen AI, it sets up a thorny problem for a tech pitched as a tool to save the world: a large carbon footprint

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[blueone]

Altman's mouth is a perpetual motion machine, so maybe we can harness that power for something useful. He seldom does.

 

[Daniel Nenni]

Sam Altman has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in nuclear fusion? And it is likely decades away? Is this a ChatGPT generated article?

"Altman himself has invested hundreds of millions in fusion and in recent interviews has suggested the futuristic technology, widely seen as the holy grail of clean energy, will eventually provide the enormous amounts of power demanded by next-gen AI."

"Nuclear fusion — the process that powers the sun and other stars — is likely still decades away from being mastered and commercialized on Earth. For some experts, Altman’s emphasis on a future energy breakthrough is illustrative of a wider failure of the AI industry to answer the question of how they are going to satiate AI’s soaring energy needs in the near-term."

 

[Tanj]

".. how they are going to satiate AI’s soaring energy needs in the near-term."

More efficient machines and more efficient algorithms.

 

[Fred Chen]

AI 運算受限電力？微軟工程師：同州部署超過 10 萬片 H100，電網就會崩潰

隨著 AI 運算要求越來越快，能源也成為值得擔憂的議題。雖然 Open AI 的 GPT-5 尚未發布，但目前有消息稱 OpenAI 似乎已著手訓練 GPT-6，而外傳 7 月發布 Llama 3 的 Meta，也有望提早至 6 月推出。 AI 新創 OpenPipe 聯合創辦人 Kyle Corb...

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Kyle Corbitt continued to ask, "Why not concentrate the training clusters in the same area?" The other party (Microsoft engineer) responded that they had tried it, but they could not place more than 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs in a single state, otherwise the power grid would be paralyzed.